Tomb-Sweeping Day cuisine?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Youth Day.

At the turn of mid-spring and late spring

It's a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

You know, Tomb-Sweeping Day is more than just sweeping graves and walking.

There are many limited foods from all over the country-

Changzhou and other Jiangnan areas

Youth league; Sweet green rice ball

Youth League, traditional festival food of Han nationality

Eating dumplings is mainly popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River.

The color is green, and it is mixed with the juice of wheat straw to form glutinous rice flour.

Then wrapped in bean paste, not sweet or greasy.

With a faint but long fragrance of grass.

Nowadays, the function of the Youth League as a sacrifice is gradually weakening.

And more people regard it as a spring outing snack.

Chinese chives

river snail

Qingming screw dragon boat festival shrimp, eat climbing (crab) in Chongyang season

Screws are available all year round.

But only the screws without children before Qingming Festival are the best.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the snail reaches the goose"

The leek is crispy, and the snail meat is q-bomb.

Think about it, it's delicious!

Edible wild vegetables

wonton

During the Qingming Festival, spring blossoms and all kinds of wild vegetables begin to grow stems and leaves.

In the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family goes out.

Dig wild vegetables in fields and rivers.

Shepherd's purse, gouqi head and Toona sinensis bud are all fresh vegetables.

Picked fresh wild vegetables are washed and drained.

Blanch with boiling water, squeeze out water and cut into pieces.

Add 30% fat meat and 70% lean pork stuffing and mix well for a while.

Wrapped into a big wonton, the wonton stuffing is thin, transparent and crystal clear, just like an ingot.

Look pleasing to the eye, chew a mouthful of saliva and oil.

Anchovies with long tail

Swordfish, known as "the freshest in the Yangtze River", has silver scales.

Named after the shape of a knife.

Every spring, swordfish flock from the ocean to the Yangtze River with the tide to lay eggs.

In the process of going upstream, the salt on your body gradually fades.

Therefore, the meat is thin and fat.

The time to eat saury is the most particular.

Before Qingming, saury was crisp and tender. Eat quickly!

spring tea

Qingming is an important dividing line for tea.

Tea picked before Qingming is commonly known as "tea before Qingming"

"There is gold before tomorrow and silver after tomorrow" means that Tomb-Sweeping Day has been saying.

The quality and price of tea will drop.

Qianming tea is rich in aroma and taste substances, so its quality is very good.

Before Qingming, the temperature was generally low, and the nutrients in tea trees were fully accumulated.

Coupled with the low temperature in spring, tea trees grow slowly.

Bud leaves are tender and thick, and the yield that can meet the picking standard is very small.

If something is rare, its price is high-the rarer the better.

Northern region: jujube cake

Jujube cake is also called "purple leg cake"

In some parts of the north, fermented grains are used to make dough.

Steamed dates symbolize the sweetness of life.

North Renye Fang is used to making jujube cakes into swallows.

Hanging wicker on the door can be eaten cold.

In memory of the noble quality of meson pushing fame and fortune.

Shandong area: pancakes

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Shandong want to eat egg rolls.

Meaning smart, this custom has continued to this day.

Besides, in the old society, some families in Shandong had to pinch noodles.

It's called "Steamed Xiaoyan"

Eat white flour chicken and eggs

It means that the swallow has come and the real spring has come.

Sichuan area: Happy Group

Fried rice is used as a group in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Put it on, big or small, and wear it in various colors, which is called "Happy Group".

In the old days, it was sold all the way from the north gate of Chengdu to the "Happy Temple"

There is a poem in Zhi Zhu's Ci of Miancheng in Qing Dynasty:

"In front of the Happy Temple, there is a happy group. In the suburbs of spring, buying food is full of troubles.

The mash play in the village is more beautiful than gold, and many people are drunk in the footbath. "

Minnan: Runbing Dishes

Every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Quanzhou people have the custom of eating "moist cake dishes"

The proper term of "Runbing Cuisine" should be Spring Cake.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating moist cakes is not only unique to Quanzhou, but also loved by Xiamen people.

Quanzhou's "cake-moistening dish" is baked with flour into thin skin.

Commonly known as "moistening cake" or "wiping cake"

Spread out the skin when eating.

Then roll shredded carrots, shredded pork, fried clams, kohlrabi and other mixed pot dishes.

The food is simple to make and tastes sweet, moist and delicious.

Anhui area: prickly heat

There is a custom of eating prickly heat in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Zongzi is a kind of fried noodle food made of glutinous flour and dough.

Changzhou also has it. It must be familiar.

Made of flour, thin as noodles, in a round grid shape.

Many people like the crispy taste of prickly heat

In Anhui, every festival is used to worship ancestors and give gifts to each other.

However, prickly heat is now more than just Qingming food.

Like potato chips, it has become a daily snack for everyone.

Northern Fujian: Bobo-Bobo

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important folk festival in Fuzhou.

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family went for an outing in the suburbs.

Go up the mountain to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an indispensable sacrifice of Tomb-Sweeping Day in Fuzhou.

It is one of the unique customs and traditional cultures in Fuzhou.

The outer skin is made of spinach, glutinous rice and japonica rice in a certain proportion.

It is made by grinding, filtering and kneading.

The color is bright green or dark green, fresh and pleasant.

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